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BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access vs Okta Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.8
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access delivers quick ROI, saving time and costs, ensuring compliance, and enhancing IT operations efficiency.
Sentiment score
5.1
Okta Platform delivers ROI with enhanced security, reduced manual tasks, improved efficiency, and streamlined identity management despite initial complexity.
Employee onboarding used to be a major pain point, but the automation Okta Platform provides for creating user accounts across various apps or SaaS tools has made our life much easier.
Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
First, it improves the security authentication and authorization processes across the organization, securing applications with single sign-on and MFA.
Practice Director - PAM, IGA, IAM & ZeroTrust at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have our dashboard to log in via Okta Workforce Identity.
Lead Admin Systems at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.8
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access offers quick, knowledgeable support with high user satisfaction but some communication and ticket system concerns.
Sentiment score
6.9
Users rate Okta's support positively, noting efficiency and dedication, but suggest enhanced immediate assistance and priority handling improvements.
Support now requires opening a ServiceNow ticket, which can be time-consuming.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
By offering a system to set varying priority levels on support tickets, urgent issues could receive quicker attention, benefiting business continuity and customer satisfaction.
IT Lead at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
For Okta Platform, the customer service is seamless, and I am very satisfied with their assistance compared to other channels such as Microsoft's, which usually takes longer to resolve issues.
Iam & Security Engineer at zeb consulting
They are very supportive; they just open a ticket, and they support us very professionally.
Staff Infrastructure & Security Engineer at Mozn Systems
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.3
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access scales well for enterprises, though challenges exist with cloud deployments and backend scalability opinions vary.
Sentiment score
7.0
The Okta Platform is highly adaptable, scalable, and flexible, ensuring seamless performance and integration for growing enterprise needs.
I would give it an eight or nine out of ten for scalability, possibly even a ten, as I do not see a limitation in scaling.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is a scalable solution based on user requirements.
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
The scalability of Okta Platform is impressive, but its effectiveness relies on how integrations are designed, rate limits are handled, and day-to-day operations are managed.
Identity and Access Management Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
It is secure, providing needed scalability without impacting performance.
IT Lead at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Clients can scale their API access requests beyond default limits, which is adaptable according to requirements without impacting performance or deployment.
Senior Analyst at Toll Holdings Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
5.0
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is stable and secure, but experiences occasional post-update bugs and recovery issues after outages.
Sentiment score
7.9
Okta Platform is highly reliable with diverse authentication methods, responsive support, and minor issues rarely affecting user experience.
Updates sometimes introduce bugs or issues, especially with non-English versions.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
This ensures immediate action upon changes applied within Okta Platform, stabilizing operations in managing user accounts, identities, logins, and user profiles.
IT Lead at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Okta Workforce Identity is a stable product.
Business Intelligence Developer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
There are no doubts regarding the stability of Okta Customer Identity.
Senior Quality Analyst at YASH Technologies
 

Room For Improvement

BeyondTrust needs simpler third-party access, improved integration, enhanced automation, refined support, and optimized interface and deployment.
Okta users face high costs, downtime, integration issues, and seek improved interface, support, authentication, and reporting features.
BeyondTrust should focus on automating the update process to reduce unnecessary ticket creation.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
We are looking for a feature where if someone is doing something risky during their session, it should alert and possibly disable their credentials.
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
If there was a fingerprint option, then only the person who has already added their fingerprint on their mobile phone could access it.
Lead Admin Systems at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
If someone is a beginner with Okta Platform, the UI should be simplified, and the language used should make it easier for them to understand the concepts and what they are trying to do.
Software Engineer at aeTech Digital Hub
While they have a vast range of integrations out of the box available, if their PAM and IGA capabilities were more mature, then Okta Platform could be the single solution for everything, covering access management, privilege access management, and governance of identity.
Practice Director - PAM, IGA, IAM & ZeroTrust at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access offers variable pricing, justified by rapid ROI and functionality, with crucial licensing understanding for cost management.
Okta Platform's pricing is higher but valued for integration, security, and usability; costly for small to medium businesses.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is expensive, yet not the most expensive in the market, so the price can be considered justifiable.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
Despite the cost, it's cheaper than the potential financial loss from a security breach.
IT Manager at Clear Channel
It is certainly not cheap, but the features that you get, the functionality that you get, and whatever use cases that you have, it definitely satisfies those.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing per-user list drops when user counts rise and with multi-year commitments.
Identity and Access Management Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access offers flexible, secure remote management with easy deployment, multi-factor authentication, and strong integration capabilities.
Okta Platform enhances security and user access with single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and seamless application integration through strong identity management.
The secure access must be audited live, ensuring patient data protection.
CEO at MICRODYN AG
The session monitoring and recording feature definitely helps security and audit with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access.
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
One of its most valuable features is its easy integration with various applications through its extensive application directory, offering hundreds or thousands of applications ready to configure.
IT Manager at Clear Channel
It offers around eight thousand five hundred out-of-the-box connectors, providing an edge over other tools.
Managing Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
For the end user, it is beneficial as they do not have to remember a password or keep the password on a post-it for different applications; they just authenticate once to access several services and service providers.
Technical Team Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust Privileged Remo...
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (15th)
Okta Platform
Ranking in Privileged Access Management (PAM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
116
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (2nd), Authentication Systems (3rd), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (2nd), Access Management (2nd), ZTNA as a Service (2nd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (1st), AI IT Support (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Privileged Access Management (PAM) category, the mindshare of BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is 2.7%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Okta Platform is 3.3%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Okta Platform3.3%
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access2.7%
Other94.0%
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
 

Featured Reviews

AK
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
Strong security with room for enhancements in AI analytics
We integrate with our Active Directory regarding the role-based access controls in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access.I have not yet utilized the endpoint least privilege management feature in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access. There is a ready integration guide available for BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, so there are no major issues. All API integration is available to integrate with. More organizations are moving towards cloud infrastructure with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access. They are choosing this because they do not want to manage their on-premises and other hardware infrastructure. As we are not working with other vendors, I would rate BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access a 10 out of 10.
SN
Identity and Access Management Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
Automated lifecycle management has cut onboarding times and now drives secure, clean access
Although I am a fan of Okta Platform overall, there are areas where it could improve security outcomes and reduce admin friction. My top improvement areas include the system log and analytics upgrade, which are great for point troubleshooting, but trending and root cause analysis across large tenants still require exporting to SIEM. Verbose queries and long-range retention costs can add up. Additionally, while certificate rotations are better than most, the process is still manual for busy portfolios, especially concerning multi-SP SAML certificate rotations and app metadata drift. Two more buckets of potential improvements for Okta Platform involve user experience and security. There is the issue of push fatigue and prompt sprawl, where users receive multiple prompts across different apps and sessions. I arrived at the rating of eight because the core controls are strong and reliable, but a few operational UX and UI gaps prevent it from being rated higher. The reasons for not giving it a nine or ten include ongoing issues concerning safety and change safety, the complexity of group rules and mappings, and the lack of robustness in policy management. Additionally, there remains a need for more manual involvement than necessary, especially for large portfolios and dual certificate rotation, along with proactive SP data metadata validation.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business48
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise59
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access?
Improving technical support for BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access is essential. When I communicate with technical support for BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, the response time is very slow.
What is your primary use case for BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access?
When we are using BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access with FortiGate or some Cisco third-party products, we collaborate with both vendors, take the requirement, and follow up with the technical te...
What advice do you have for others considering BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access?
I have not utilized the endpoint least privilege management feature in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access as I have only been using it for eight or nine months. I am not working with other produc...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Okta Workforce Identity?
Pricing for Okta is reasonably not that much, however, I don't have access to the commercial aspect.
What needs improvement with Okta Workforce Identity?
Currently, in Okta Workforce Identity we get the two-digit authentication code. Instead of getting the two-digit authentication code, if we had an option to do fingerprint verification, that would ...
What is your primary use case for Okta Workforce Identity?
I don't have many details about Okta Workforce Identity. I use the tool just to sign in to different applications that we have. We basically set up Okta Workforce Identity in our mobile phone. We d...
 

Also Known As

Bomgar Privileged Access
Okta Customer Identity, Workforce Identity
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Horizon Beverage, Air Liquide, Gateway Bank of Florida
FedEx, Zoom, Takeda, Lululemon Athletica, GrunHub, jetBlue, McKensson, Bain & Company, Engie, Peloton, Sonos, T-Mobile, Hewlett Packard, MGM Resorts, Ally Financial, Priceline, Albertsons, Itercom, Classy, FICO, Kensho, Live Nation, Drata, Rotary, and others.
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